Excellent point. My low-light shooting experience is virtually non-existent. My bad experiences with muzzle flash tend to come from shooting pistols chambered for cartridges like (usually, for me) .308 Win in a 14" bbl., 7.62x39 from a 10" bbl, and .30-30 from a 9" bbl., cases where the muzzle flash can impact my vision even during the day. Thus, my experiences are either non-existent or inapplicable.I find the myth about "flash" ruining "vision" to be a story told by people who don't actually shoot very much.
Really? Over the years, I've lost a lot of blood shooting N-frame S&W revolvers from rollover prone. Of course, that's from bullet shavings and not gas venting so perhaps here, too, my experience has led me astray.A stronger case can be made from shooting comp'ed or ported guns in "close retention" positions, but the same sort of high pressure gas venting from revolver's cylinder gap hasn't overly bothered people for a century or so in similar work.
Very much so. The M29 I have in mind was built in the 1970s when S&W quality was at its nadir. Being a kid and not knowing how badly their quality had slipped, I proceeded to feed it a steady diet of full-house Keith loads. After a few thousand rounds, I retired it after a match that left my left forearm caked in blood.Ben sounds like your cylinder was out of time
Those were the days. IHMSA #4925L, here.Ben, I hear you..shooting pistol silhouette...
I used to get pissed at the guys who loaded 'em up with H335 (Damn, that was a shattering muzzle blast!) or SR4759 (No flash suppressant coating on the powder so even milder loads produced prodigious muzzle flash.). That led to some very interesting conversations with a suppressor manufacturer on the subject of testing powders for best performance though his suppressors.And yes, the giant fireball out of the muzzle rather overshadows the porting on those barrels.
Very much so. The M29 I have in mind was built in the 1970s when S&W quality was at its nadir. Being a kid and not knowing how badly their quality had slipped, I proceeded to feed it a steady diet of full-house Keith loads. After a few thousand rounds, I retired it after a match that left my left forearm caked in blood.
That's the thing about rollover prone - it's easy for fat guys to get into and very steady but it sticks that left arm right in the path of anything escaping from the cylinder gap.